On Apr 14, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 4/14/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So this means we can expect Roy to retire from writing and speaking
and traveling around the world, and retiring to the Indian
countryside to cultivate lentils?
Non sequitur.
Not at all. What is she? She is an international celebrity, a best-
selling author who no doubt books a healthy revenue. She has joined
the same class she criticizes in the quoted passage. She speaks and
writes in English, the global language, which is spoken by that
elite, but not by, what?, 90% of the Indian population. I can't blame
her for joining the global elite, but she should show more
understanding for those Indians who want to as well. Is a programmer
in Bangalore really "greedy"? That's a moralizing critique but not
much more. I've really never gotten much sense of what kind of
economic policy she thinks India should follow, and how to get there.
I once asked her U.S. agent, very sophisticated fellow politically,
what her politics were, and he said he'd rather drink a beer.
Doug